NOT SUBBED The Bunya nut is an important food source for the Wakka Wakka and Jarowair people of southern Queensland. The tree which grows to about 30-45 meters tall will flower every three to four years and produce pine cones weighing up to 10 kilograms containing around 100 nuts. The trees can live up to 600 years. People are allocated certain trees, and no one else is allowed to climb that tree. People would climb the tree to gather young nuts, which are more tender, for younger or older people, while the more mature cones that have fallen from the tree would be collected from the ground. The flavour of the nuts is enhanced when roasted in the ashes, and tastes between a potato and a chestnut. There are scars which naturally occur on the Bunya pine from where the limbs were. People would elaborate on those scars to make footholds to shimmy up the tree using a vine from the rainforest. The bunya pine is from the Devonian period and around 200 million years old and was most likely a snack for dinosaurs.